This video you’re about to see was filmed on one the most luxurious shopping streets of Madrid and shows a well-dressed respectable woman who passes in front of a Chanel boutique and sees something she wants, but can’t afford. She begins to have an anxiety attack and eventually resorts to begging for what she wants…

It boasts 19 buildings with traditional French features, including a swimming pool, tennis court, stables, a chapel, village hall and acres of land, but only had an asking price of 330,000 Euros. At such an outlandish price, the abandoned hamlet of Courbefy soon caught the attention of the international media, interest sky-rocketed and gave the…

Are you in the mood for a good ghost story? I always am. Doll collecting is a pretty spooky habit on its own. But when you start hanging them from trees on a remote island allegedly haunted by the spirit of a girl, well, things start to tip the scales. Deep in the canals of…

So here’s a funny thing you might not have known about Mohandas Gandhi, non-violent activist, historical human reference for world peace and overall man-saint. Dated 23rd July 1939, just a month prior to the German invasion of Poland, Gandhi wrote this letter to his ol’ buddy Adolf Hitler. The letter never actually made it to Hitler…

This is great. Openly-boozy actor Bill Murray takes us through the set of Moonrise Kingdom in a way that only boozy Bill Murray could. Favorite boozy confession: “I had to work with a bunch of scouts and kids. No money can make that right can it?” Check it out… [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K60lcuhwcJs&feature=player_embedded]

You know when get a little drunk and put a belt around your head because it seems fun at the time … no? Well me neither then, but in 1960s Paris, apparently you didn’t have to be drunk to think head belts made your head look more fashionable. From yet another LIFE magazine gem dug…

If you trawl the internet and its design blogs as much as I do, you might have already come across this wall art trend that seems to be happening. I’ve finally discovered the company behind most of it, with their clever faux headboards that I’ve been eyeing and various other creative graphics for walls around the…

Sorry to ruin your childhood memories on this fine afternoon, but during my back alley stumblings of the internet today, I came across a rather disturbing fact that I think you should know. Prince Charming, Disney’s favorite stock character who managed to get with both Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Cinderella, he was so damn…

I came across some photos in the LIFE Archives by fashion photographer Nina Leen, and it seems that back in the day, people liked matching a whole bunch of stuff; shoes, hats, gloves, jackets, umbrellas, you name it. The idea of walking into a shop and seeing a skirt or jacket being sold with a…

Over the weekend I was doing a spring clean of the ol’ closet and decided to say goodbye to a well-worn, much-loved pair of red denim booty shorts. You see, there comes a point when you get over the mid twenties hump and make the wise decision to stand up and say, “I’m not going…